Remembering and Making an Impact, with thanks to Brad Meltzer.
I recently saw this Ted Video by Brad Meltzer called How to Write Your Own Obituary, which I highly recommend. Brad was a client of mine from 2000-2005 in the days of small, narrow, author websites (see screenshot to the right). We say howdy via email every couple of years, and I guess it’s about ...
3 Reasons Why Your Website Should be Like an Online Dating Website
In the last 15+ years, I’ve worked with more than 400 clients on more interactive projects and websites than I think I can count anymore (including a couple online dating sites). The result of all of this work is that I’ve come to realize that websites really fall under one main model, and that is ...
List Posts: the Good, the Bad and the Irony.
Or maybe I should call this “1 thing I noticed that made me laugh about list posts since mostly they’re overused except for David Letterman and what you should do instead.” I noticed this article in my Daily Smart Brief for Social Media email today about the over use of the List Post format in ...
Email Newsletter Follow Up
The other day, I was asked by a client about what I thought about their current email newsletter and whether they should convert it to a blog. They send about twice a year and obviously, don’t have a huge response. Nor do they have a lot of subscribers, about 500 or so. They are one of several schools I’ve worked with and I thought I’d share some of my thoughts that I shared with them.
4 Reasons Email Marketing is Less Effective and How to Make it Better
Many years ago we designed and started to build an email marketing program much like the Emma’s and Constant Contacts of today. We got it launched and off the ground and had users sending many thousands of emails per month. Eventually, better funded companies built them faster and better and we migrated our clients to our agency accounts and abandoned ours to the digital trash heap. But we learned a lot through this experience.
How Social Media Marketing can be fresh every day
I’ve heard people say that they never have anything to talk about with regards to marketing their websites or products. That it’s always the same thing day after day and there’s never anything to talk about and that they’re too busy to see beyond the day to day activities that keep them busy.
I would disagree with this. And here’s why.
My take at a Blog Strategy
Recently, I created a blog strategy for a client that I thought was really pretty good. Maybe a bit aggressive, but after reading Justin Kownacki’s post on “What I’ve Learned From Blogging Weekly Instead of Daily,” I thought that this strategy was pretty close to getting the sort of website traffic that I thought was ...
One of the Strangest Twitter Follow Notifications Ever
A short bit ago, I received the typical twitter email announcing that someone had followed me. It was quite strange as you can see… Fortunately, Someone I work with, @paulknipe, translated this for me: “Have you heard the news that I have a Twitter page? I highly encourage you to follow me right away. Click ...
Friday’s Browser Tab Summary of Cool, Interactive (mostly) Links
I regularly find myself with way too many tabs open of good, interesting articles I find via email, twitter, facebook, and you know, all the Social Media avenues that everyone knows about. It really slows my browser down to have so many windows open (more than what I’m listing below). I don’t want to lose ...
